Steve Fuller
@profstevefuller.bsky.social
Professor of Social Epistemology, University of Warwick, UK
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Steve Fuller
@profstevefuller.bsky.social
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To Judge and To Justify
This book argues that judging and explaining are the two academic skills that specifically require further training
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New book just out: 'To Judge and To Justify: Profiles of the Academic Vocation' (Springer): link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
If Obama can get the Nobel Peace Prize after less than a year in office, why not Trump?
October 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If Obama can get the Nobel Peace Prize after less than a year in office, why not Trump?
Some people don't care if you learn anything from them as long as you respect them for who they are. It's almost as if they'd prefer to be an artwork than a resource. It's an interesting situation, which unfortunately is contaminated by the idea of selfishness.
October 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Some people don't care if you learn anything from them as long as you respect them for who they are. It's almost as if they'd prefer to be an artwork than a resource. It's an interesting situation, which unfortunately is contaminated by the idea of selfishness.
You should wait until ChatGPT provides *correct* references.
I'll do references when I am done writing.
Me doing references:
Me doing references:
September 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
You should wait until ChatGPT provides *correct* references.
People who like to accuse others of committing 'fallacies' should discover the #enthymeme. And once they do, they might expand their understanding of so-called 'dog whistle politics'.
August 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
People who like to accuse others of committing 'fallacies' should discover the #enthymeme. And once they do, they might expand their understanding of so-called 'dog whistle politics'.
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“Any teacher who can be replaced by a machine should be.” - Arthur C. Clarke
@profstevefuller.bsky.social's update (below) with a similar sentiment, "You don't want to have a bionic textbook whose content is reducible to their PowerPoints."
@profstevefuller.bsky.social's update (below) with a similar sentiment, "You don't want to have a bionic textbook whose content is reducible to their PowerPoints."
July 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
“Any teacher who can be replaced by a machine should be.” - Arthur C. Clarke
@profstevefuller.bsky.social's update (below) with a similar sentiment, "You don't want to have a bionic textbook whose content is reducible to their PowerPoints."
@profstevefuller.bsky.social's update (below) with a similar sentiment, "You don't want to have a bionic textbook whose content is reducible to their PowerPoints."
The best way to overturn the standard is to confuse people about what the standard is. The first step is to render the discrete continuous.
July 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The best way to overturn the standard is to confuse people about what the standard is. The first step is to render the discrete continuous.
If you want to remind people of what they already supposedly know, then do it succinctly like #Wittgenstein. Otherwise, it's not a reminder but a lesson. Latter-day analytic philosophers have totally missed the performative character of Wittgenstein's philosophy.
July 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
If you want to remind people of what they already supposedly know, then do it succinctly like #Wittgenstein. Otherwise, it's not a reminder but a lesson. Latter-day analytic philosophers have totally missed the performative character of Wittgenstein's philosophy.
My next book 'Media and the Power of Knowledge', soon to be published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, is based on some of my teaching, where I've promoted truth-telling as a performing art.
July 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My next book 'Media and the Power of Knowledge', soon to be published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, is based on some of my teaching, where I've promoted truth-telling as a performing art.
People here might be interested in an online lecture I gave a couple of months ago to students at Tokyo Tech on the relationship between science and science fiction:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5stp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5stp...
The Distinction Between Science & Science Fiction | Prof. Steve Fuller | Institute of Science Tokyo
YouTube video by Prof. Steve Fuller
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July 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
People here might be interested in an online lecture I gave a couple of months ago to students at Tokyo Tech on the relationship between science and science fiction:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5stp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5stp...
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Has science killed philosophy? | iai.tv/video/hawkin...
Lewis Wolpert, Steve Fuller and Jonathan Derbyshire investigate the limits of science and philosophy.
#philsky #philsci ⚛️ 🧪
Lewis Wolpert, Steve Fuller and Jonathan Derbyshire investigate the limits of science and philosophy.
#philsky #philsci ⚛️ 🧪
Hawking vs. Philosophy
Stephen Hawking declared the death of philosophy. Was he right? Has science rendered philosophy obsolete? Should we be looking to science to answer the biggest questions, or are there areas of…
iai.tv
June 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Has science killed philosophy? | iai.tv/video/hawkin...
Lewis Wolpert, Steve Fuller and Jonathan Derbyshire investigate the limits of science and philosophy.
#philsky #philsci ⚛️ 🧪
Lewis Wolpert, Steve Fuller and Jonathan Derbyshire investigate the limits of science and philosophy.
#philsky #philsci ⚛️ 🧪
Universities have never made clear whether 'dignity in the workplace' covers 'not insulting your intelligence'.
June 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Universities have never made clear whether 'dignity in the workplace' covers 'not insulting your intelligence'.
Because universities are such boutique things, it's amazing that the people marketing universities these days lack that sensibility. There's more to it than simply generating memes. You need to know your competition and be able to back it up under scrutiny.
June 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Because universities are such boutique things, it's amazing that the people marketing universities these days lack that sensibility. There's more to it than simply generating memes. You need to know your competition and be able to back it up under scrutiny.
Maybe the best way to deal with Generative AI is to presume that everything it says is Heideggerian 'Gerede' (idle talk, gossip), and then proceed from there.
June 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Maybe the best way to deal with Generative AI is to presume that everything it says is Heideggerian 'Gerede' (idle talk, gossip), and then proceed from there.
A well-run university has a good sense of its academic staff's capacities and then try to build on them. The resulting policies shouldn't look like something generated by ChatGPT.
June 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
A well-run university has a good sense of its academic staff's capacities and then try to build on them. The resulting policies shouldn't look like something generated by ChatGPT.
The ultimate expression of intellectual property is the idea that empathy is mind theft.
June 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The ultimate expression of intellectual property is the idea that empathy is mind theft.
You shouldn't be deterred from doing the right thing even if doing the wrong thing would produce more good. This is real #ethics, upfront and personal. It's why Kant and Bentham are the key figures -- and why we all end up Existentialists.
June 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
You shouldn't be deterred from doing the right thing even if doing the wrong thing would produce more good. This is real #ethics, upfront and personal. It's why Kant and Bentham are the key figures -- and why we all end up Existentialists.
Academia as papier-mâché: Somebody should run with that metaphor.
June 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Academia as papier-mâché: Somebody should run with that metaphor.
If you don't say what you think on a regular basis, you can easily forget that you think at all. #SocialMedia is actually quite helpful in this respect.
June 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
If you don't say what you think on a regular basis, you can easily forget that you think at all. #SocialMedia is actually quite helpful in this respect.
The mass of unacknowledged and unpaid labour involved in academic decision making at all levels -- from staff hiring to journal publication to project funding -- would make any rapacious capitalist weep with envy.
June 16, 2025 at 7:31 AM
The mass of unacknowledged and unpaid labour involved in academic decision making at all levels -- from staff hiring to journal publication to project funding -- would make any rapacious capitalist weep with envy.
As someone who re-reads and re-listens to what he says from time to time, I am struck less by having said something wrong than having said something that failed to express what I meant. I find this awareness very motivational. I recommend it as a way to improve thinking.
June 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
As someone who re-reads and re-listens to what he says from time to time, I am struck less by having said something wrong than having said something that failed to express what I meant. I find this awareness very motivational. I recommend it as a way to improve thinking.
When we defend #science, we are primarily defending a certain way of producing knowledge. The ideas promoted by science can easily be accessed through philosophy, literature and even meditation.
June 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
When we defend #science, we are primarily defending a certain way of producing knowledge. The ideas promoted by science can easily be accessed through philosophy, literature and even meditation.
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New at #SocialEpistemology: Chinese Philosophy and Civilization as Seen from a Western Lens, Steve Fuller https://social-epistemology.com/2024/07/16/chinese-philosophy-and-civilization-as-seen-from-a-western-lens-steve-fuller/ https://social.dfaria.eu/?hashtag=2024-07-16T14:40:03Z
July 16, 2024 at 2:41 PM
New at #SocialEpistemology: Chinese Philosophy and Civilization as Seen from a Western Lens, Steve Fuller https://social-epistemology.com/2024/07/16/chinese-philosophy-and-civilization-as-seen-from-a-western-lens-steve-fuller/ https://social.dfaria.eu/?hashtag=2024-07-16T14:40:03Z
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Six Challenges for Science, Technology, and Society in the Future, Steve Fuller
The pretext for the following piece is that Ilya Kasavin, who holds the Chair in Social Epistemology at the Institute of Philosophy in the Russian Academy of Sciences, recently asked me to identify some challenges for…
The pretext for the following piece is that Ilya Kasavin, who holds the Chair in Social Epistemology at the Institute of Philosophy in the Russian Academy of Sciences, recently asked me to identify some challenges for…
Six Challenges for Science, Technology, and Society in the Future, Steve Fuller
The pretext for the following piece is that Ilya Kasavin, who holds the Chair in Social Epistemology at the Institute of Philosophy in the Russian Academy of Sciences, recently asked me to identify some challenges for society in the short to medium term that would result from science and technology reconstituting the social world. Below you will find six challenges, some of which have been previously discussed on…
social-epistemology.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Six Challenges for Science, Technology, and Society in the Future, Steve Fuller
The pretext for the following piece is that Ilya Kasavin, who holds the Chair in Social Epistemology at the Institute of Philosophy in the Russian Academy of Sciences, recently asked me to identify some challenges for…
The pretext for the following piece is that Ilya Kasavin, who holds the Chair in Social Epistemology at the Institute of Philosophy in the Russian Academy of Sciences, recently asked me to identify some challenges for…
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🧬 **Steve Fuller on Transhumanism**
“What does it mean to be human in a posthuman age?”
Materialist theology, morphological freedom & the ethics of transcendence.
Watch here: snglrty.co/4feHhL9
#Transhumanism #AI #Posthumanism #SteveFuller #Podcast
“What does it mean to be human in a posthuman age?”
Materialist theology, morphological freedom & the ethics of transcendence.
Watch here: snglrty.co/4feHhL9
#Transhumanism #AI #Posthumanism #SteveFuller #Podcast
Prof. Steve Fuller on Transhumanism: Ask yourself what is human?
Steve Fuller is the author of a trilogy relating to our ‘post-’ or ‘trans-‘ human future. Check out this interview for his thoughts on transhumanism.
snglrty.co
April 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🧬 **Steve Fuller on Transhumanism**
“What does it mean to be human in a posthuman age?”
Materialist theology, morphological freedom & the ethics of transcendence.
Watch here: snglrty.co/4feHhL9
#Transhumanism #AI #Posthumanism #SteveFuller #Podcast
“What does it mean to be human in a posthuman age?”
Materialist theology, morphological freedom & the ethics of transcendence.
Watch here: snglrty.co/4feHhL9
#Transhumanism #AI #Posthumanism #SteveFuller #Podcast
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Elon Musk Meets Max Weber: The Logic of Dogelectics, Steve Fuller
1. Bureaucracy as the Target of Dogelectics 'Dogelectics’ is my whimsical name for the organizational logic underwriting Elon Musk’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE) that US President Donald Trump has empowered—as of…
1. Bureaucracy as the Target of Dogelectics 'Dogelectics’ is my whimsical name for the organizational logic underwriting Elon Musk’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE) that US President Donald Trump has empowered—as of…
Elon Musk Meets Max Weber: The Logic of Dogelectics, Steve Fuller
1. Bureaucracy as the Target of Dogelectics 'Dogelectics’ is my whimsical name for the organizational logic underwriting Elon Musk’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE) that US President Donald Trump has empowered—as of January 2025—to streamline the operations of the federal bureaucracy. It aims to undo the organizational logic of Max Weber’s (1946b) classic account of bureaucratic governance. Key to understanding the historic appeal of bureaucracy as an organizational logic is its aspiration to convert society into a concrete version of an axiomatic system, which has provided the gold standard of rationality in the West, at least since Euclid’s…
social-epistemology.com
May 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Elon Musk Meets Max Weber: The Logic of Dogelectics, Steve Fuller
1. Bureaucracy as the Target of Dogelectics 'Dogelectics’ is my whimsical name for the organizational logic underwriting Elon Musk’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE) that US President Donald Trump has empowered—as of…
1. Bureaucracy as the Target of Dogelectics 'Dogelectics’ is my whimsical name for the organizational logic underwriting Elon Musk’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE) that US President Donald Trump has empowered—as of…